What Skills Would Be Useful for a Career in a Public Health Laboratory?

This webinar will explore the hard and essential skills that help public health laboratory professionals succeed and how to strengthen those skills through coursework and extracurricular activities. Panelists will share practical ways to identify, develop and apply these skills in the workplace. Participants will leave with strategies to connect their academic and extracurricular experiences to their professional goals. The panelists bring firsthand experience working in public health laboratories and developing the skills needed to succeed in the field. OBJECTIVES At the conclusion of the program, the participant will be able to:Describe key laboratory skills that are useful in the public health laboratory setting and ways to develop them Identify key soft skills for public health laboratory professionals and explore which are particularly important for success in the field Identify platforms, coursework and extracurricular opportunities that can help develop skills relevant to public health laboratory science FACULTYEileen Smith, junior sequencing technologist, North Carolina State Public Health LaboratoryJill S. Warrington, MD, medical director, Alice Hyde Medical Center, Elizabethtown Community Hospital and Ticonderoga Health CenterEli Williams, food safety laboratory division chief, Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture Bureau of Food Safety and Laboratory Services AUDIENCE This webinar is recommended for current graduate, undergraduate and high school students interest